> Jevons’. Jevons’ paradox predicts that when something becomes cheaper, demand increases as the cheaper good is economically viable in a wider variety of cases.
That's just the usual behavior of any market. When prices go down, demand goes up.
Jevon's paradox specifically says when prices go down by a factor of x, demand goes up by a factor greater than x, leading to total consumption (measured in money spent) goes up.
In the context of this post we can paraphrase (replacing money with programmers) like so:
Once AI makes it so developing any piece of software takes half as many programmers, the amount of software developed will go up by more than two times, leading to a net increase in the number of programmers required.
That's just the usual behavior of any market. When prices go down, demand goes up.
Jevon's paradox specifically says when prices go down by a factor of x, demand goes up by a factor greater than x, leading to total consumption (measured in money spent) goes up.
In the context of this post we can paraphrase (replacing money with programmers) like so:
Once AI makes it so developing any piece of software takes half as many programmers, the amount of software developed will go up by more than two times, leading to a net increase in the number of programmers required.